Strike for our future
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Student activist Ummi Hoque from Walthamstow urges people to get involved in this month’s climate strike Time’s running out...
Tag: climate change
Fight the flights
Leyton resident Geoffrey McDowall on why London City Airport should not be allowed to expand In 2012 the long-needed...
Anger over airport plan
Leyton and Leytonstone set to be affected by further expansion of London City Airport, reports James Cracknell Anti-aviation campaigners...
Council still investing tens of millions in fossil fuels despite divest pledge
Report by James Cracknell and Richard Collett-White Waltham Forest Council still has tens of millions of pounds invested in...
‘Climate emergency’ declared
Protests prompt council to take action, reports James Cracknell Local activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) have persuaded Waltham Forest...
Rebel for life
Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion now has a group in Walthamstow, writes Jessica Townsend I first began to properly...
‘My homeland is lost paradise’
Island nation twinned with Waltham Forest suffers hurricane horror, reports Russell Hargrave A borough resident spent days fearing for...
Celebrating action on climate change
Darragh Martin attended an event to celebrate the campaign which helped end council’s investment in fossil fuel industry Those curious as...
Borough leading way in fight against fossil fuels
Divest Waltham Forest campaigner Rob Platts hopes a landmark victory inspires others around UK On 22nd September 2016 Waltham...
Divest movement grows
Divest Waltham Forest activist Rob Platts on last month’s demonstration against fossil fuel investments Campaigners from Divest Waltham Forest...